Microsoft has quietly fixed a bug in the on-hold Windows 10 October 2018 Update that in earlier versions wasn't telling users when apps requested permission to access all of a user's files.

The bug in the Windows 'broadFileSystemAccess' API could have given a malicious developer of Universal Windows Platform (UWP) apps access to all of a user's documents, photos, downloads, and files stored in OneDrive.

Britain's opposition Labour Party was using a $20-a-month "basic security" service to protect its website when hackers attempted to force it offline last week and temporarily slowed down online campaigning, according …